Gerty Dambury

Gerty Dambury (born 1957) is a writer, educator and theatre director from Guadeloupe.

[1][2][3] Born on 27 February 1957 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Gert Dambury studied English and Arabic at Paris Vincennes University.

Her most famous play, Lettres indiennes, comparing Martinique life for immigrants with that of Guadeloupe, was first performed in Avignon in 1996 and in English as Crosscurrents in New York in 1997.

[1][4][5] Her play Trames (2008), presented in English as Shades, was awarded the prize for drama by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques.

[6] Dambury's first novel, Les rétifs, published in French in 2012, builds on the riots in Guadeloupe in May 1967 when the author was 10 years old.